Word: newscaster
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...least getting into the TV listings. True, the Sunday program ranks a predictable fourth in the ratings (partly because it's on far fewer stations than its network rivals). And it looks awfully lonely on Fox, considering that the network has no plans to start an evening newscast or any other national news show in the immediate future. But with Fox chief Rupert Murdoch vowing to launch a 24-hour cable news channel in the fall--and with a growing roster of network-level talent signing up to help him, led by former CNBC chief Roger Ailes--the concept...
...male stripper to help illustrate his talk on censorship at a conference organized by Murdoch. A number of top executives--among them ex-CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter and longtime CBS News executive Joseph Peyronnin--came and went after that, and plans changed just as often. An evening newscast was being considered, then it wasn't. A prime-time magazine show, Front Page, went on the air, then was canceled. A late-night news show was put in the works, then abandoned...
Servicing those local stations with news footage was a priority starting in the early '90s. "There was a conscious decision made that we would not produce at the network level a national newscast," says Paul Amos, who ran the Fox News Service from 1991 to 1993. "Rupert and [former Fox chairman] Barry Diller felt strongly that the hallmark of Fox News would be locally produced programs with assistance at the national level." Amos' staff did no news gathering but acted essentially as a distribution service, gathering stories from overseas suppliers and from Fox-owned stations in the U.S. and feeding...
...after five years on the air, Channel One News has filled an important niche. The program now reaches 8 million students, or 40% of all teenagers in the country. That is roughly five times the number of teens who watch newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN combined. And though the mix of MTV-style graphics, rock music and on-air pop quizzes is more sprightly than anything Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw delivers, the newscast is hardly dumbed down...
...contrast to the sports-and-celebrity-heavy format of its early days, the newscast now stresses social issues of interest to young people, with enterprising stories on the homeless, teens in prison and endangered wolves. It has featured interviews with Janet Reno, Benazir Bhutto and Mikhail Gorbachev--who dropped by Channel One's Hollywood studio for the chat. The news program won a prestigious Peabody Award for its coverage of aids, and in 1994 beat out such network competition as Prime Time Live for an award at the Chicago Film Festival...